Greg You might check out SLAX
http://slax.linux-live.org/ It uses compressed file system "objects" (loopback mounts) that it merges into a coherent file system tree using UnionFS. You can probably pear it down to just what you need and it's designed for "live CD" type setups. So it should probably do what you want with respect to a read-only system. -Brian On 1/30/06, Greg Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > All: > > After screwing up my outer banks server for the last time I have elected to > go with a read-only ssh gateway of sorts for my remote network. I have a > three port x86 compatible device with a CF reader that I can use for this > project. I have searched a bit for various distributions and have turned up > a few but I wanted to ping the list to see what was you used. My > requirements are: > > 1. read only > 2. ssh server > 3. squid would be nice, but not required > 4. nmap > > That's about it. This device will have two interfaces and one will be the > interface the firewall forwards ssh requests to. Once I'm logged in I can > hop around to the other APs or ssh devices as needed. > > Suggestions? > > Greg > -- > TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug > TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ > TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ > -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/
